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About Investor

Hootan Rashidifard is a Principal at Canaan, investing out of the firm’s New York office and also known for founding the early-stage fund Hash3. His focus is on SaaS and enterprise software, consumer internet, media, and fintech, usually at seed and Series A with occasional later-stage follow-ons, and he typically participates in rounds in the roughly $250K to $20M range. Your data plus public profiles line up on him leading or co-leading early institutional rounds and then doubling down as companies scale. Before Canaan, he worked in venture at Bessemer and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, giving him both early-stage pattern recognition and late-stage financial chops.